Inngest
Ship reliable code, faster.
Founded in 2021 by Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown in San Francisco, Inngest was built to solve the hardest problem in serverless computing: how do you run reliable, long-running workflows when serverless functions have strict timeout limits? Inngest wraps any async function with durability, retries, and orchestration, making it possible to build sophisticated workflows that run for hours or days on serverless infrastructure. The company has grown rapidly among developers building AI applications that require complex multi-step processing — exactly the use case that breaks traditional job queues. Inngest raised $25 million in 2024 and has become a popular choice for Next.js and Vercel-based applications.
Active Founders
Dan Farrelly
Founder / CEO
Dan Farrelly is the co-founder and CEO of Inngest. He previously worked as CTO at Buffer and as a software engineer at several developer tools companies. He founded Inngest after experiencing how poorly standard serverless architectures handled the long-running, unreliable workflows that real applications required — building the durable execution layer that makes background jobs on serverless infrastructure finally reliable.
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